Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Denis Dowling wrote:
>
> > You should stay away from any Award source. Reverse engineering is fine
> > through. We don't want to pollute LinuxBIOS with proprietary code from a
> > BIOS vendor. Besides I think we can do a better job ourselves.
>
> yep. We obviously have no interest in any proprietary code, esp. 'trade
> secret' code which is the only form that Award will come in.
>
> And, by measurement, we have done a better job, at least on SiS. Memory
> performance is better under LinuxBIOS than under the Award BIOS.
>
> ron
I agree. I've only been able to get Award source code directly from Award and always
under a strict
license. I've never seen it available openly. It's also not surprising that the memory
performance
is improved under LinuxBIOS especially now since Phoenix acquired Award and with all
their source
code modules being so fragmented. I've even heard from their BIOS engineers about how
confusing all
the module patches can be.
Bari
